Posts Tagged by Neanderthals
In the latest version: Cold climate helped to do in the Neanderthals
| September 3, 2018 | Posted by News under extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: A team of researchers from a number of European and American research institutions, including Northumbria University, Newcastle, have produced detailed new natural records from stalagmites that highlight changes in the European climate more than 40,000 years ago. They found several cold periods that coincide with the timings of a near complete absence of […]
A physicist looks at biology’s problem of “speciation” in humans
| August 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation |
Consider this item on the recent find of the remains of a girl from 90,000 years ago: The discovery of the first-known offspring of parents from two different hominin species took scientists by surprise. While evidence has been pointing to interbreeding among the ancestor species of modern humans, the direct link is being hailed as […]
Neanderthal woman, Denisovan man
| August 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: Together with their sister group the Neanderthals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. “We knew from previous studies that Neanderthals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together,” says Viviane Slon, researcher at the MPI-EVA and one of three first authors of the study. “But I never thought we […]
Neanderthals had a sophisticated home life?
| August 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
New Scientist is now rehabilitating the Neanderthals. We once thought of Neanderthals as crude and unintelligent – not any more. Archaeological evidence suggests they were capable of symbolic thought, had some capacity for speech, and probably carried out elaborate burial rituals. They may even have taught modern humans new skills when the two species met […]
